Terminals

2005-09-04 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I have serveral servers in a cage in Toronto, but I live 120 miles away. Every once in a while, I will crash a box, or lock myself out of one of them (mostly just the dev box now!). Anyways, is it possible to daisychain the machines together using COM1 and COM2 so that no matter what, o

Change terminals

2003-07-07 Thread Marvin J. Kosmal
Question When you ssh into your work machine from home How or can you change the terminal you are on.. example below Last login: Mon Jul 7 22:23:50 2003 from clark.lab [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ w 22:31:55 up 4 days, 8:42, 7 users, load average: 1.16, 1.03, 1.01 USER TTY FROM

switching terminals

2005-11-17 Thread Atis
Is the following possible? I log into a computer, and by executing "ps" see that there's some program "xx" reading and writing to/from a terminal called /dev/ttyp3. The controlling terminal for my current processes, however, is /dev/ttyp2. Now, can I make the program xx change its terminal so t

Re: Terminals

2005-09-04 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 04), Grant Peel said: > I have serveral servers in a cage in Toronto, but I live 120 miles > away. Every once in a while, I will crash a box, or lock myself out > of one of them (mostly just the dev box now!). Anyways, is it > possible to daisychain the machines together u

Re: Terminals

2005-09-04 Thread Emanuel Strobl
unknown off secure +consolenoneunknown off insecure # -ttyv0 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure +ttyv0 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 off secure # Virtual terminals -ttyv1 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons

Re: Terminals

2005-09-05 Thread Chris
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Sep 04), Grant Peel said: I have serveral servers in a cage in Toronto, but I live 120 miles away. Every once in a while, I will crash a box, or lock myself out of one of them (mostly just the dev box now!). Anyways, is it possible to daisychain the machi

RE: Terminals

2005-09-05 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
L PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday, September 05, 2005 1:16 AM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt >Cc: Grant Peel; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: Terminals > > >On 2005-09-05 00:25, Ted Mittelstaedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Grant Peel wrote: >>> Hi all, >>

Re: Terminals

2005-09-05 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-09-05 12:55, Ted Mittelstaedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>On 2005-09-05 00:25, Ted Mittelstaedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> if you crash a box why would a serial console still work? >> >>It would still work if the kernel has KDB compiled in.

Thin Terminals

2006-09-20 Thread Robert Davison
I've been looking at the Sun Ray terminals and like the idea of using thin clients to connect to the main server to run apps. Are they any programms in thr ports which allow a similar set-up using FreeBSD. I know you can do this with X but would need a tutorial to help me through it. A

Re: Change terminals

2003-07-08 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 10:35:08PM -0700 or thereabouts, Marvin J. Kosmal wrote: > > > Question > > When you ssh into your work machine from home > How or can you change the terminal you are on.. > > example below > > Last login: Mon Jul 7 22:23:50 2003 from clark.lab > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ w

Re: Change terminals

2003-07-08 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 09:14:25AM -0700 or thereabouts, Joshua Oreman wrote: > On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 10:35:08PM -0700 or thereabouts, Marvin J. Kosmal wrote: > > > > > > Question > > > > When you ssh into your work machine from home > > How or can you change the terminal you are on.. > > > >

Re: Change terminals

2003-07-09 Thread Stephen Hilton
On 07 Jul 2003 22:35:08 -0700 "Marvin J. Kosmal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Question > > When you ssh into your work machine from home > > How or can you change the terminal you are on.. > > > > example below > > > > > > Last login: Mon Jul 7 22:23:50 2003 from clark.lab > [EMAI

Re: switching terminals

2005-11-17 Thread Eric F Crist
Try watch. On Nov 17, 2005, at 3:36 AM, Atis wrote: Is the following possible? I log into a computer, and by executing "ps" see that there's some program "xx" reading and writing to/from a terminal called /dev/ttyp3. The controlling terminal for my current processes, however, is /dev/ttyp2.

Re: Thin Terminals

2006-09-20 Thread Erik Norgaard
Robert Davison wrote: I've been looking at the Sun Ray terminals and like the idea of using thin clients to connect to the main server to run apps. Are they any programms in thr ports which allow a similar set-up using FreeBSD. I know you can do this with X but would need a tutorial to

Re: Thin Terminals

2006-09-23 Thread Ceri Davies
On 20/9/06 13:37, "Robert Davison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been looking at the Sun Ray terminals and like the idea of using thin > clients to connect to the main server to run apps. Are they any programms in > thr ports which allow a similar set-up using F

RE: Thin Terminals

2006-09-23 Thread Ansar Mohammed
2006 5:53 AM > To: Robert Davison; Freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Thin Terminals > > On 20/9/06 13:37, "Robert Davison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've been looking at the Sun Ray terminals and like the idea of using > thin >

Re: Thin Terminals

2006-09-23 Thread Ceri Davies
son; Freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> Subject: Re: Thin Terminals >> >> On 20/9/06 13:37, "Robert Davison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> I've been looking at the Sun Ray terminals and like the idea of using >> thin >>> clients to

RE: Thin Terminals

2006-09-24 Thread Ansar Mohammed
> Does it dance the Sun Ray dance, or are we back to rolling our own? > > Ceri Huh? Clearly, its not as attractive as a Sun Ray. But I dunno about dancing and rolling.. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/li

Re: Thin Terminals

2006-09-24 Thread Ceri Davies
On 24/9/06 13:52, "Ansar Mohammed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Does it dance the Sun Ray dance, or are we back to rolling our own? >> >> Ceri > > > Huh? > Clearly, its not as attractive as a Sun Ray. But I dunno about dancing and > rolling.. Does it work with Sun Ray server? Ceri -- That m

X Terminals problem

2009-07-04 Thread Leonardo M . Ramé
In my newly installed 7.2-STABLE, any X Terminal (xterm, xfce's Terminal, eterm,...) is working in the wrong way, specially while I use vim (v. 7.2.209) in text mode (gvim works ok), it can't scroll, when I try to move the cursor after the last line on the screen, the status bar shows that the

Openoffice and diskless terminals

2004-08-18 Thread Livhu Tshisikule
Hi, I have just installed Openoffice on my server that has a number of diskless terminals booting from it. Openoffice run on the server but not on the terminals. I have other applications that runs on the terminals without any problem. Any idea? Regards Livhu Tshisikule

Thin terminals for FreeBSD

2006-08-07 Thread Nagy László
Hello, I need to setup an environment where some users (10 to 20 employees) will use terminals to run programs. They need to run a few popular programs: thunderbird, firefox, adobe acrobat, openoffice and gaim. This site will be a customer service. We decided to reduce the costs by using

Cheap terminals for FreeBSD

2006-08-07 Thread Nagy László Zsolt
Hello, I need to setup an environment where some users (10 to 20 employees) will use terminals to run programs. They need to run a few popular programs: thunderbird, firefox, adobe acrobat, openoffice and gaim. This site will be a customer service. We decided to reduce the costs by using

Re: X Terminals problem

2009-07-05 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On 04 July 2009 pm 23:17:48 Leonardo M. Ramé wrote: > In my newly installed 7.2-STABLE, any X Terminal (xterm, xfce's did you install from CD? I upgraded and I did not have this problem. If nothing helps, install 7.1 from CD and do an upgrade via sources. I faced others I have solved afte

Connecting EFTPOS terminals to FreeBSD

2013-05-14 Thread Da Rock
I have a client looking for a POS system and they need to be able to connect an EFTPOS terminal (credit/debit card terminal) to obtain data for transactions from. Has anyone here had any experience with this? I'm used to servers and such, but the goal here is to use a CRM (vTiger or such) with

Adding psuedo-terminals FreeBSD 5.4

2006-02-06 Thread Grant Noruschat
I have been unable to find any real instructive information on how to increase the total number of tty/pty pairs in /dev. I have an authpf gateway box that requires more than the default 62 terminals for ssh connections. Since both mknod and MAKEDEV are deprecated functions (MAKEDEV doesn't

Re: Thin terminals for FreeBSD

2006-08-07 Thread Derek Ragona
In these days of commodity PC pricing running X-terminals isn't really cost effective. You'd be better off buying 10 - 20 identical PC's loading and configuring one, and then clone the drive for the rest. Using X-terminals will likely cost more per unit, and produce more load

Re: Thin terminals for FreeBSD

2006-08-07 Thread cpghost
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 09:19:30PM +0200, Nagy L?szl? wrote: > I need to setup an environment where some users (10 to 20 employees) > will use terminals to run programs. They need to run a few popular > programs: thunderbird, firefox, adobe acrobat, openoffice and gaim. This I

Re: Thin terminals for FreeBSD

2006-08-07 Thread cpghost
On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 01:12:02AM +0200, cpghost wrote: > On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 09:19:30PM +0200, Nagy L?szl? wrote: > > - Are there any pitfalls that I need to be aware of? > > Locking over NFS is a bit buggy. I had some trouble running thunderbird > and firefox, as they seem to hang on some t

Re: Thin terminals for FreeBSD

2006-08-07 Thread cpghost
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 02:27:30PM -0500, Derek Ragona wrote: > the only positive to X-terminals is in configuration and maintenance. ...and being totally silent! In an office not necessarily that important, but in some other environments, it's very convenient! > -Dere

Re: Thin terminals for FreeBSD

2006-08-07 Thread Olivier Nicole
> - Is there a more cost-effective solution? (Something that I did not > think of) We used to build (well my colleague did that) X terminals based on a thin configuration of freeBSD (must have been version 2 at that time) that we ran on diskless computers booting from floppy. At that time

Re: Cheap terminals for FreeBSD

2006-08-07 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
--- Nagy L�szl� Zsolt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I need to setup an environment where some users (10 > to 20 employees) > will use terminals to run programs. They need to run > a few popular > programs: thunderbird, firefox, adobe acrobat,

Re: Thin terminals for FreeBSD

2006-08-08 Thread Erik Norgaard
Nagy László wrote: Hello, I need to setup an environment where some users (10 to 20 employees) will use terminals to run programs. They need to run a few popular programs: thunderbird, firefox, adobe acrobat, openoffice and gaim. This site will be a customer service. We decided to reduce

Re: Cheap terminals for FreeBSD

2006-08-08 Thread Nagy László Zsolt
Sorry for multiple postings. The first e-mail did not come through for hours becasue I wrote it from the wrong e-mail address. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, s

Re: Cheap terminals for FreeBSD

2006-08-08 Thread Sergio Lenzi
Em Ter, 2006-08-08 às 00:18 +0200, Nagy László Zsolt escreveu: Hello Here I have several units running FreeBSD 6.1 with diskless using a big server and several clients (20-30) thin clients... it is very fast.. (the openoffice starts in 5 seconds...)... I recomend: 1) server AMD64 socket 93

Re: Cheap terminals for FreeBSD

2006-08-08 Thread Nagy László Zsolt
Hello Sergio, You are the guy that I was waiting for. :-) Now I know for sure that it will work. I only have one question. How do you setup the sound card? The programs are running on the server, right? Then how can use use the sound card? Is it that 'noisy' programs are running from the disk

Re: Cheap terminals for FreeBSD

2006-08-08 Thread Sergio Lenzi
Em Ter, 2006-08-08 às 21:20 +0200, Nagy László Zsolt escreveu: > Hello Sergio, > > You are the guy that I was waiting for. :-) Now I know for sure that it > will work. I am glad I could help you have you seen the desktop image > I only have one question. How do you setup the sound

Re: Thin terminals for FreeBSD

2006-08-09 Thread Chris Shenton
of the boxes. The less sysadm I do the better. >> - Do I need to use gigabit ethernet? Or is it enough to use a normal 100 >> Mbps wired network? I heard that there can be bandwidth problems when >> using many terminals, but I do not have experience. > > For a diskless setup

Re: Thin terminals for FreeBSD

2006-08-09 Thread Ansar Mohammed
work? I heard that there can be bandwidth problems when >> using many terminals, but I do not have experience. > > For a diskless setup, 100 MB switched on the client side is enough; but > you'd definitely prefer gigabit ethernet on the NFS server. I'm using switched 100Mbps ethe

Re: Thin terminals for FreeBSD

2006-08-09 Thread Erik Nørgaard
Chris Shenton wrote: > cpghost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I'm using EPIA 5000 mini-ATX boards with 512 MB RAM, diskless booting >> from an NFS server. They load X.org and everything else on demand. >> Compared to local HDDs, there's a small performance hit when loading >> programs [and those

Re: Thin terminals for FreeBSD

2006-08-09 Thread Chris Shenton
"Ansar Mohammed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > the EPIA's look nice but cost too much. > For comparable performance you can retrofit an old netier XL2000 on ebay > with a laptop hard drive. > They are small, fanless and come with an AMD 400-450 Mhz proc. > They usually go for about 10$ on ebay. Yo

Re: Thin terminals for FreeBSD

2006-08-31 Thread Luyt
On Monday 07 August 2006 21:19, Nagy László wrote: > I need to setup an environment where some users (10 to 20 employees) > will use terminals to run programs. They need to run a few popular > programs: thunderbird, firefox, adobe acrobat, openoffice and gaim. Jamie Zawinski has do

SOLVED (Re: X Terminals problem)

2009-07-05 Thread Leonardo M . Ramé
http://leonardorame.blogspot.com - Original Message From: Leonardo M. Ramé To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Saturday, July 4, 2009 12:17:48 PM Subject: X Terminals problem In my newly installed 7.2-STABLE, any X Terminal (xterm, xfce's Terminal, eterm,...) is working in the wrong way,

Switching terminals under VMWare Fusion

2008-03-12 Thread Alexander Sack
tools port as well as the tools shipped with Fusion and made some edits to accommodate 7.0-RELEASE. All is well minus the fact that either the ALT key or some other issue is preventing me from switching terminals (ALT-F1, F2, etc.). Has anyone seen this problem before? If you run Workstation or

wireless and diskless terminals 4.9 stable

2004-02-05 Thread Robert Barten
Is there a bootable 54 MBit/s PCI card (FreeBSD 4.9 Stable)? Experiences with Allnet ALL0271 Wireless 54 Mbit PCI? Any help is highly appreciated. Cheers, -- Robert Barten ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fre

Re: Connecting EFTPOS terminals to FreeBSD

2013-05-15 Thread Shane Ambler
On 15/05/2013 12:13, Da Rock wrote: If anyone has some dev material (or links to such) would be handy as well- I need to get a far better picture of all this. I don't have any experience to help but ledgersmb.org may be what you are looking for - they have free community support as well as co

Re: Connecting EFTPOS terminals to FreeBSD

2013-05-15 Thread Da Rock
On 05/16/13 12:42, Shane Ambler wrote: On 15/05/2013 12:13, Da Rock wrote: If anyone has some dev material (or links to such) would be handy as well- I need to get a far better picture of all this. I don't have any experience to help but ledgersmb.org may be what you are looking for - they h

Slightly OT, OSX, terminals & key combinations

2003-02-02 Thread Rich Fox
Hi I use a MacOS X workstation to connect to my FreeBSD box where I use Pine to compose these emails. Apparently the Terminal program in MacOS X intercepts ctrl+o combinations which are used to postpone messages in Pine. Thus, when I use the key combination ctrl+o it never reaches the remote machi

Re: Switching terminals under VMWare Fusion

2008-03-12 Thread Alexander Sack
ped with Fusion and made some edits to accommodate 7.0-RELEASE. All > is well minus the fact that either the ALT key or some other issue is > preventing me from switching terminals (ALT-F1, F2, etc.). Has anyone seen > this problem before? If you run Workstation or Fusion have you seen any &g

Re: Switching terminals under VMWare Fusion

2008-03-12 Thread John Nielsen
gt; > 7.0-RELEASE. All is well minus the fact that either the ALT key or > > some other issue is preventing me from switching terminals (ALT-F1, > > F2, etc.). Has anyone seen this problem before? If you run > > Workstation or Fusion have you seen any issues with switching > >

Re: Switching terminals under VMWare Fusion

2008-03-12 Thread Alexander Sack
shipped with Fusion and made some edits to accommodate > > > 7.0-RELEASE. All is well minus the fact that either the ALT key or > > > some other issue is preventing me from switching terminals (ALT-F1, > > > F2, etc.). Has anyone seen this problem before? If you

Re: Switching terminals under VMWare Fusion

2008-03-13 Thread Alexander Sack
10.5.1). I've installed the vmware-tools port as well > > > > as the tools shipped with Fusion and made some edits to accommodate > > > > 7.0-RELEASE. All is well minus the fact that either the ALT key or > > > > some other issue is preventing me from s

Free X terminals for a good home!

2004-01-07 Thread J. Seth Henry
Guys/Gals, In another attempt to reduce my inventory of gadgets, I've decided to to a bit more purging. This time, it's X terminals. Yes - I do have the server side software for all of them, so they won't end up as doorstops. 2x IBM Netstation 1000 terminals. Nice, fast - but

Blank terminals, no monitor signal, oh my...

2003-10-23 Thread Andrew B
This has happened to me 3-5 times so far, in the past two months. The ttyvs are all black, the monitor acts as though it gets no signal... kind of. Specifically, the monitor will power down the screen after a bit, as normal. However, instead of the light blinking on 1 second intervals or so, it

Re: Slightly OT, OSX, terminals & key combinations

2003-02-02 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Rich Fox wrote: > I use a MacOS X workstation to connect to my FreeBSD box where I use Pine > to compose these emails. > Apparently the Terminal program in MacOS X intercepts ctrl+o combinations > which are used to postpone messages in Pine. Thus, when I use the key > combinat

Re: Slightly OT, OSX, terminals & key combinations

2003-02-02 Thread Rich Fox
Hi, Thanks for the response. Perhaps it is some other problem, but it is only manifest in Terminal. I have no problem with this using BetterTelnet in emulation. Any advice on how to troubleshoot it? Rich. | Rich Fox | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 86 Nobska Road | Woods Hole, MA 02543 | MA 508 548

Re: Slightly OT, OSX, terminals & key combinations

2003-02-02 Thread Chuck Swiger
Rich Fox wrote: [ ... ] Apparently the Terminal program in MacOS X intercepts ctrl+o combinations which are used to postpone messages in Pine. Thus, when I use the key combination ctrl+o it never reaches the remote machine (or at least it doesn't appear to, but it doesn't appear to do anything at

Re: Slightly OT, OSX, terminals & key combinations

2003-02-02 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rich Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > Hi > > I use a MacOS X workstation to connect to my FreeBSD box where I use Pine > to compose these emails. > Apparently the Terminal program in MacOS X intercepts ctrl+o combinations > which are used to postpone messages in Pine. Thus

Re: Slightly OT, OSX, terminals & key combinations

2003-02-02 Thread Rich Fox
toggles the flushing of termi- nal output. Unfortunately, I can't quite make out where this is set when reading the various man pages regarding terminals. In gettytab, I see: # cflags: CLOCAL | HUPCL | CREAD | CS8 # oflags: OPOST | ONLCR | OXTABS # iflags: IXOFF | IXON | ICRNL | I

Re: Slightly OT, OSX, terminals & key combinations

2003-02-02 Thread Chuck Swiger
Rich Fox wrote: Thanks, I think that found the issue, however... an stty -a returns... [snip] cchars: discard = ^O; dsusp = ^Y; eof [snip] [ ... ] Am I even barking in the right forest? Yes. If you've also got "lnext" set like so: lnext min quitreprint start status stops

Re: Slightly OT, OSX, terminals & key combinations

2003-02-02 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Sunday, Feb 2, 2003, at 12:07 US/Pacific, Rich Fox wrote: Hi, Thanks, I think that found the issue, however... an stty -a returns... [snip] cchars: discard = ^O; dsusp = ^Y; eof [snip] Umm, that's what mine reports, as well, both when I'm local to the Mac and when I'm ssh'ed to the Fr

Re: Slightly OT, OSX, terminals & key combinations

2003-02-02 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Rich Fox wrote: > Apparently the Terminal program in MacOS X intercepts ctrl+o combinations > which are used to postpone messages in Pine. Thus, when I use the key I use: ssh -e none freebsd-machien.domain.com dw. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi